English Version (Listening)

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  • The English Alphabet: Students can listen to the English alphabet, watch how letters ara written and words beginning with that letters.


  • 123Listening.com: Free downloadable audio files with matching worksheet, custom worksheet makers and additional suppporting materials. Many different audio downloads and many different worksheets that can be combined to be very simple for young learners or more difficult for older students.

  • Storyline:It is a web where you can watch famous actors reading stories in streaming video with pictures and follow-up exercises.

  • ELLLO: It is a free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers. Most listening activities include images, an interactive quiz, transcript of the audio and downloadable MP3.

  • The Daily English Show: It is the world's first daily online English language show. Produced by studio tdes and presented by Sarah - a New Zealander based in Niseko, Japan. The Daily English Show is free for anyone to use for teaching or studying. Teachers can use the videos and scripts in class. The Daily English Show has no sponsor and there is no advertising on the show or on the sites.

  • ESL Cyberlistening Lab: Randall's ESL Listening Lab is the best place on the Internet to get authentic listening practice. It has different levels (easy / medium / difficult) and each activity contains: a pre-listening exercise, a listening exercise, vocabulary acivities (not always) and a post-listening exercise.

  • Kids Music: Discover great new music for children at FreeKidsMusic.com. Free and legal MP3 music download for kids!

  • The Children's Music Web: a non-profit resource for kids, families, and children's performers worldwide.It offers music education links for teachers and parents.

  • Music and Children's TV Shows: Another great way of instilling the love of music in your children is letting them watch educational tv shows for kids that fosters music education. Since most homes are never without a television set, why not make the tv work to your child's advantage? Here are several suggested tv programs to check out.

  • ESL-Galaxy: Teach English with songs. You will find printable music worksheets and lyrics.

  • Listen-and-write: The site gives you the opportunity of listening to and writing dictations. You can listen to all audio at once or select the track to start the dictation. It is a way to improve your listening skills and hear about the news. There is different levels of difficulty. If you or your students have problems, you can also view the transcripts.

  • LeosLyrics: It is a searchable lyrics database with over 300000 song lyrics with messageboards and discussions to use in the classroom.

  • Podfeed.net : It is a podcast directory that helps you find podcasts, read and write podcast reviews, listen to podcasts and share your podcast with others.

  • Learn English with pictures and audio: Learn English with pictures and audio. It is similar to a picture dictionary, but it contains audio so you can listen to the pronunciation of words.

  • Using Music in the ESL Classroom: It is a very interesting article telling you about the benefits of using music, techniques for using music with L2 learners, suggested activities, tips for using music effectively, online materials and resources, etc.

  • EFL Club Songs: It is a small classical songs database (e.g. Beatles) you can listen to while doing a gap-filling exercise.

  • Real English: The Web's only online ESL site that utilizes authentic and natural ESL videos of people speaking real English on streets across the globe. Designed for individuals learning English, as well as for teachers and institutions, Real English® offers unique ESL lessons, rendering the spontaneity of normal (fast) speech understandable for all levels of students. No need to sign in. The lessons are all free and free-access.


  • Wired for books: The web offers poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults.

  • The Beatles' Lyrics: This site offers you all the Beatles' songs (lyrics), so you can use them in any listening comprehension.

  • ESL Videos: Free esl video quizzes and resources for ESL / EFL students and teachers.

  • Musical English Lessons: This free website contains written materials related to songs where your students can revise grammar points. Use Youtube to help you with the activities. Your students will love it!

  • Learn Englihs with Bob: Learn the days of the week and months at Junta de Castilla y León educational website.

  • ESL All: ESL Listening Comprehension Resources.


  • Text-To-Speech (TTS): Type in some text, choose a voice, and then listen as what you wrote is read back to you. Very fun!

  • Videos: EducationalVideos on Youtube.


  • Manythings: Audio Concentration/Memory Games for ESL students. This kind of game has a few different names: Concentration, Memory and Match the Pairs.

  • ESL Bears: Links to very basic listening activities which will prepare students for comprehension questions in later listening activities. (More activities here).

  • EnglishRyan: EnglishRyan is a website with free English audio and video lessons on a variety of funny and interesting topics.


  • Songs for Teaching: Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum – to students of all ages. They offer thousands of children's songs, lyrics, sound clips and teaching suggestions.

  • Teaching with Songs: Here it is a list of songs with related activities to practise vocabulary, grammar, sounds, etc. Most of them are "popular" among our Spanish students and some others are old songs, but nice and useful. Click here to go directly to the NEW songs. They are arranged in alphabetical order according to the singers.


  • Lyricsmania: A large lyrics collection organized by artist and album. Daily updated.


  • Bob Dylan: All about Bob Dylan: songs, albums, tours, etc.

  • English Trailers: A free website for studying English using movie commercials. Watch the trailers and go over the questions. It's a fun way to study.

  • EnglishBaby: Learn real English based on American culture with free lessons, quizzes, audio, message boards and chat at English, baby!

  • AudioEnglish.net: A huge collection of English-learning resources and online English courses with audio: Practical English, Accounting English, ...

  • Dictations: The page offers dictations with different levels of difficulty.

  • ESLgold: Interesting material to improve the listening comprehension.

  • Studio4learning: It is a great site for students in fifth through twelfth grades. It provides students and teachers with free, high-quality videos that can be watched online. There are ten categories of videos to choose from Math, Sciences, English, Languages, Social Sciences, Business, Arts, Test Prep, Find a Job, and Tutor Corps. Each category is broken down into several sub categories. Videos are engaging and teach key skills and concepts in a fun way.

  • Learn English: Learn and revise vocabulary while listening to the words. It has many categories.


  • Jango: Jango internet radio is all about making online music free, easy and fun. Just type in an artist, and your first free internet radio station starts playing right away. You'll get the free online music you want, along with similar favorites of Jango users who share your taste. Customizing your free online radio stations further is just as easy. Just add more artists and rate songs that you want to play more or less. (Click here for similar services)

  • Mixpod: If you like music, don't miss it!. An online ipod where you will listen to your favourite music. Have a go! You may also embed it in your personla blog or web page.

  • Infosquares: You will find here short clips from contemporary movies and popular television shows to test listening comprehension.

  • Newsinslowenglish: English language podcast for beginners who already posses a basic vocabulary and some knowledge of Spanish grammar. Although you have to suscribe, you can take advantage of some free materials that will be useful and enough for listening to news everywhere.

  • The Film Education website: A site created for primary and secondary teachers and students using films across the UK National Curriculum.

  • BookBox : Audio-visual stories, ages 2 to Pre-Teen; web-based jukebox of digital books. Hear the books read in a multitude of languages. Individual words can be followed in a number of languages also. You do have to register but it is free registration. The site offers downloads of the stories for a fee, but the online books are free. external image 1smspkr.gif
  • ESLpodcards: The site for teachers and students of English. Free unlimited audio filesexternal image grey_loader.gif to download to use in class or at home for self-study. Each with ready to print worksheets or online activities.

  • ESLpundit: Web page with many links to listening and speaking resources.

  • Stories from the web: Stories your students can read and listen at the same time. They are categorised according to the reader age. Click here to listen to some stories.


  • Real English:The Web's only online ESL/EFL site that uses authentic and natural videos of people speaking real English on streets across the globe. Designed for individuals learning English, and for teachers and institutions, Real English® offers unique ESL lessons, rendering the spontaneity of normal speech understandable for all levels of students.

  • Focusenglish: This site is dedicated to help ESL/EFL learners to develop conversational listening skills.

  • Audioenglish.net: A huge collection of English-learning resources and online English courses with audio: Practical English, Accounting English, ...

  • Blabbinit: A fun and exciting way to practice English through podcasts, forums, chats, and blogs.

  • ESLBasics: Learn and improve your English by means of videos.